Despite the US-brokered ceasefire, Israel is allowing only a quarter of the promised aid to enter Gaza, the Palestinian enclave. This means that the country has blocked 75 percent of the total aid.

Meanwhile, the number of casualties and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is increasing due to the continued attacks by Israeli forces in violation of the ceasefire terms, Al Jazeera reported on Sunday (November 2).

Gaza authorities said that Israel is allowing only a small portion of promised aid into Gaza, despite the US-brokered ceasefire taking effect.

In a statement on Saturday, the Gaza government's media office said that 3,203 commercial and aid trucks entered Gaza from October 10 to 31. This means that an average of only 145 trucks were allowed to enter per day, which is just 24 percent of the 600 trucks allowed daily as part of the ceasefire.

The statement said, "The Israeli occupation forces are deliberately blocking trucks carrying relief and commercial goods. As a result, the humanitarian crisis of more than 2.4 million people has worsened. And the responsibility for this lies entirely with Israel."

In such a situation, the mediators of the ceasefire agreement, including US President Donald Trump, have been called on to put pressure on Israel to allow aid to enter "without any conditions or restrictions."

Although the flow of aid has increased slightly since the ceasefire took effect, most people in Gaza are still in dire need of basic necessities, including food, water, and medicine, due to Israeli restrictions.

In addition, many families are still homeless after two years of continuous Israeli attacks. Many are now living in the open air as their homes and entire neighborhoods have been destroyed.

Farhan Haq, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said on Thursday that relief efforts were being limited by a rerouting ordered by Israeli authorities. “Convoys are now forced to travel along the narrow and damaged coastal roads, which are severely congested, via the Philadelphia Corridor, near the Egyptian border,” he said.

He also said that there is a need to open additional border routes and internal routes to strengthen relief activities.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces violated the ceasefire and attacked various areas in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. The southern Khan Younis area was hit by air, artillery and tank fire, causing widespread destruction.

Israeli forces also demolished several residential buildings east of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum reported that witnesses in Khan Younis said, "Houses and farmland are being reduced to rubble by Israeli drones and heavy shelling."

He also said that the Gaza Civil Defense Organization is unable to reach many affected areas due to the continued presence of drones in the sky and bombing.

According to Gaza's Health Ministry, at least 222 Palestinians have been killed and 594 injured in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire went into effect.